{"id":590,"date":"2013-01-17T10:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-calls-for-cross-community-response-to-sectarian-violence-in-belfast-2\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:02:08","slug":"crowe-calls-for-cross-community-response-to-sectarian-violence-in-belfast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-calls-for-cross-community-response-to-sectarian-violence-in-belfast-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe calls for cross community response to sectarian violence in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Crowe calls for cross community response to sectarian violence in Belfast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the D\u00e1il today, Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, highlighted the  needfor an all-party and cross community response to the recent flags  protests in the North and the violence which has accompanied them.<\/p>\n<p>Crowe, who is also a member of the Joint Committee on the  Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, raised the subject by  entering it under topical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelfast is a changing and shared city, and it is no longer dominated  by unionism. The issue of flags and symbols at Belfast City Hall is a  sensitive one, but this doesn\u2019t mean it can or should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelfast City Hall is a shared workplace and under equality  legislation it must provide a good and harmonious working environment.  Employees and those who use the City Hall, must have their cultural and  political identities respected, and not be made feel isolated or  marginalised due to their identities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vast majority of the loyalist protests taking place are illegal  and they are being orchestrated by the UVF and BNP figures. In the last  week these protests have attacked interface areas. Once again we have  seen the Short Strand community targeted by fascists and bigots, with  sectarian attacks led by the UVF and BNP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnionists talking amongst themselves will not solve this issue and  create mutual respect for people\u2019s national identity and culture. That  can only come when inclusive talks, with representatives from the whole  community, take place. There needs to be an open discussion on how  people\u2019s national identity can be respected and valued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEquality and mutual respect needs to be at the core of any move  forward on identity and symbols. There can be no return to one party and  unequal rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loyalist rioting needs to stop and there needs to be collective  action from across society to push ahead with peace and reconciliation  work throughout the North\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe calls for cross community response to sectarian violence in Belfast In the D\u00e1il today, Dublin South West TD, Se\u00e1n Crowe, highlighted the needfor an all-party and cross community response to the recent flags protests in the North and the violence which has accompanied them. Crowe, who is also a member of the Joint Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}